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The largest rallies are to be held in New York City and Washington D.C., with more than 1,000 people expected to participate in each, Anna Wilmesher, an organizer of Restore the Fourth told reporters in a conference call Tuesday.

“These rallies were specifically chosen to take place on the 4th of July because like the symbolic event July 4th celebrates each year, we stand for the same values that the founders of the U.S. fought for in gaining independence,” Wilmesher said.

In conjunction with the rally, a petition sponsored by a coalition called Stop Watching Us has attracted more than 538,483 signatures as of Wednesday morning. The petition calls on Congress “to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA’s and the FBI’s data collection programs.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has lent his voice to the movement, recording a video that will be played at some of the rallies and sending his Kentucky state director, Jim Milliman, to the Louisville rally, organizers said.

“Thanks for rallying to defend the bill of rights. I often tell people you can’t have the second amendment if you don’t have the fourth amendment,” Paul says in the video.

A spokesperson for Restore the Fourth told POLITICO future plans for the group include filing for tax exempt status and becoming an established advocacy group.

“We are going to be a dedicated fourth amendment group, we might even take this to the courts,” the spokesperson said.